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Facebook has come under criticism over the past few weeks. First, for acknowledging it sold $100,000 in ads to what’s been described as a Russian troll farm. And then for enabling ads targeting people with anti-Semitic views. To talk about this, we reached out to Faine Greenwood. She's a researcher at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s Signal Program.

At the height of the Great Recession, banks were foreclosing on Valley homeowners at record rates. But, today, years later, it’s homeowners associations that are foreclosing on more and more homeowners. It’s becoming more and more common today, according to a new investigation from Catherine Reagor and Jessica Boehm in the Arizona Republic.

Since April, when President Trump ordered a review of national monuments created since 1996 to end “egregious use of government power,” observers have been waiting for news on how Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke would approach these federal lands. Juliet Eilperin, senior national affairs correspondent at the Washington Post, obtained a copy of Zinke’s memo.

On September 24th, voters in Germany will head to the polls for federal elections. The election takes place after the U.S. intelligence community concluded that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. There have also been plenty of concerns about Russian meddling in Germany’s big vote, and its efforts to try and destabilize Europe and the European Union.

The United Nations General Assembly is holding its annual meeting in New York this week, and there is already a great deal of attention on President Donald Trump, who will address the group of world leaders for the first time on Tuesday.

An Arizona lawmaker says Phoenix police are violating provisions of a controversial 2010 law known as SB 1070 that requires police to inquire about the immigration status of people they suspect are in the country illegally.

The Arizona Department of Public Safety says a DUI enforcement operation being conducted Saturday in Navajo County could be a precursor to formation of a task force in that part of northeastern Arizona.

The American Society of Civil Engineers has given America’s roads a D rating. But a recent study shows that trying to raise that grade without accounting for climate change could put the country’s roadways at risk.

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